Sermons from 2015
An Age Old Battle
Revelation 12:1-6 Who are the real enemies of the church? Who are the real enemies of the church? Some would probably give the answer that it’s our lawmakers. They make up rules and laws that affect our ability to have a non-profit status, or that mandate things related to health care, or they restrain what we can say or not say. Some would say that the enemies of the church are heretics, those who teach falsehoods, those who proclaim a…
Born to Set Us Free
Galatians 4:4-5 We look forward to the coming of age. We look forward to rites of passage. We look forward to certain privileges and freedoms. My kids often ask from time to time, what was it like, Dad, to do this or that? And one of the things that I tell them often is about the time I turned 16 and went to get my driver’s license. That’s a pretty remarkable day for a teenager. That’s a pretty big milestone.…
What Do Christians Say to One Another?
Hebrews 3:12-19; Jeremiah 23:1-8 What is the dumbest thing you have ever done? I don’t say it out loud, but it’s probably related to losing your keys or dropping your smartphone in some body of water. It may relate to the garage door in the car or leaving your purse or your wallet somewhere. But you have probably done what we say are some pretty dumb things in life. It’s just part of our nature. It’s who we are. Our…
Perseverance – Finishing the Race
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 But we’re, I guess, what, about 12, 15 weeks into our study of the Christian life, and we are making our way across the span or the spectrum of all that God teaches us in the Bible about growing in grace. And we started, I guess I should start this way, we started way back in eternity past with God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit making an eternal decree to save…
Which Will It Be: Stiff Necked or Firm in Faith?
Hebrews 3:7-11 If we were to advertise in the newspaper for weeks and weeks with pictures and lots of space, and we were to put a sign on our marquee, and maybe balloons on all the corners of our property, and maybe one of those lights that the car dealers rent sometimes that shines a light around the city, and we let it be known that Jesus was going to be speaking from our pulpit on a particular Sunday, guess…
Fruitful Faith & Good Works
Ephesians 2:8-10
He Saved a Wretch Like Me!
Psalm 113
Show and Tell
Psalm 78:1-8
The Enemy Who Roams Around You
Ephesians 6
Set Your Mind on Jesus
Hebrews 3:1-16
The Enemy Around Us: the World
John 17 Well, our subject tonight is the world. The world is an enemy of the Christians. So let’s read from John 17. And we’ll begin there. 17 verses 1 to 26. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and he said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, that the son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom you have…
Jesus: Like Us So We Could Be Like Him
Hebrews 2:10-18 Does anybody know what I suffer? Has that ever been a question on your mind? Does anybody know what I suffer? Do they know what I’m going through? Do they know the trouble that plagues me? Or maybe you’ve asked it this way, does Jesus understand my sorrows? Does he, the God of the universe, does he understand little old me and all the things that I deal with? My day-to-day struggles, my sickness, my hardship, my sorrows.…